Medical Care

Initial treatment of phacolytic glaucoma is focused upon acute lowering of IOP using a combination of topical and systemic IOP-lowering agents. Topical steroids also may facilitate IOP lowering and decrease pain.

Medical therapy is only a temporizing measure until cataract surgery can be scheduled.

Inci Irak Dersu, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine; Attending Physician, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital, and VA Harbor Health Care System